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While wandering around the web today, I found out about the latest Titanic Expedition(via Gizmodo). The latest expedition to the wreck of the Titanic, is being undertaken by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, and RMS Titanic. This is the most technologically advanced expedition yet, and plans to thoroughly map the site, and create the latest in [...]

From IFC News website:

The Girl With the Foreign Language Franchise
How “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” became the year’s surprise arthouse hit.

It is out on DVD now. It’s available streaming from Netflix. I strongly recommend you watch this Swedish film, before the American remake ruins things!

Here is a little demo that I certainly could have used years ago.

Of course now, I carry a corkscrew in my car at all times!

For 6 seasons now, I have been watching the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch. In case you haven’t heard about it, Deadliest Catch, puts cameramen aboard several Alaska crab fishing boats, and follows them as they fish the Bearing Sea for King and Opilio(or snow) crab. Of course the catch seasons are in the winter, [...]

I found a funny new site, at least new to me… and funny to me:

The site is called GraphJam.com and it is just a lot of graphs that illustrate some funny truths and the silliness of graphs. Take a look. Oh in case any Apple cultists take umbrage at the graph, let me just say [...]

One more gaga entry and then we’ll close the topic. I was questioned about why I like Lady Gaga. So, here are 2 exhibits that I found interesting. This first one is an interview from German TV that apparently was filmed in November of 2009. The video is 8 minutes, and it starts with a [...]

A year ago, I hadn’t heard of Lady Gaga. Well, maybe I had heard of her peripherally, but I had no idea who (or what) she was. Well today, you can’t avoid her. This past week was the big CES (consumer electronics show) in Vegas. This is one of, if not the largest trade show [...]

The character to the left is my new favorite literary heroine, Lisbeth Salander. Well, actually, the picture is of Swedish actress Noomi Rapace as the character Lisbeth Salander from the Swedish film Män som hatar kvinnor (“Men who hate women”) or as it was published in English ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo‘. I picked [...]

Well, after that nasty entry I wrote about Firefox 3.5, I thought I should post an update. I am now using FF 3.5.2 and my problems are gone. It appears that the problem might have been with my Usenet provider, although that doesn’t explain the issues with Customize Google plugin. Anyway, I installed the second [...]

Anyone who knows me, knows that I like food. I love to eat, and generally I like all kinds of food. Since our move to Las Cruces I have begun to worry about America’s food supply. It was easy to ignore the obvious problems while living in the Bay Area of California. Because of the [...]

Here’s a cool website I heard about called: How Many of Me The site tells you (statistcally) how many people in the US have your same name. Give it a try!
howmanyofme.com

I’ve been watching the HBO series “True Blood”. I have liked vampire stories/movies since I was a kid. My first exposure to the Dracula story happened in 1958 when I saw the Hammer Film version of Dracula starring Christopher Lee as the nasty count. I was hooked. Of course I had to read the Bram [...]